Studying the Role of Happy and Effective Schools in Preventing of Addicted to drugs

Abstract

The aim of present study is to investigate the relationship between happy and effective schools in preventing students from addiction to drug in secondary education at Esfahan in 2012-2013.The investigation method is of correlation one. So the statistical society consists of 316 girls and boys in grade three of high school in the course of experimental sciences, Mathematics and humanity sciences who were chosen by a random clustering sampling. The study tool is researcher- made questionnaire for gathering information. The stability coefficient of questionnaire was calculated by Krunbakh Alpha methods 81% of course, the retesting was used for the questionnaire stability that it was confirmed at the limit of 9.81 for girls and boys.The test structure fluency was obtained on factor analysis whose components were studied in different dimensions and confirmed by experts and professors. The Fordyce’s Happiness test was used; too .the data were analyzed by SPSS 16 software .the Pierson’s correlation was used to analyze the data and multi-variables regression was used to determine the share of each effective element to preventing from addiction to drug. Also, the t-test was employed to compare the averages in independent groups. The yielded results by step-to-step regression showed that happiness and effective components in schools may play a role in preventing addiction among students. In other words, with the happiness and effective components of schools, the non-tendency to drug is predictable about 16% among the students.

Keywords: Effective schools, Happiness, prevention, Addiction to drugs.